Solidarity on the move: Imaginaries and infrastructures within the People's March for Jobs (1981)

IF 3.3 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Pub Date : 2023-09-11 DOI:10.1111/tran.12637

Paul Griffin

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Abstract This paper revisits the 1981 People's March for Jobs as a moment of unemployed activism and solidarity in the UK. The paper argues that the march revealed a spatial politics of solidarity as characterised through mobility, presence, imaginaries and dialogue. It considers how the march emerged through trade union organising and forged political alliances in articulating opposition against rising unemployment, challenging the associated stigma around labour market inactivity. Contributing to geographical scholarship on ‘working‐class presence’ and concepts of ‘imagined solidarity’, the paper explores the ‘solidarity infrastructures’ that enabled unemployed resistance. It considers material resources alongside a more generative and imaginary understanding of solidarity as fostered through the march. These more transitory and temporary forms of solidarity are meaningful in their immediacy, but also hold longer lasting impacts on both those involved and the places visited. In this regard, the combination of ‘imagined solidarities’ and ‘solidarity infrastructures’ provides geographers with an insight into the spatial dynamics of marching as resistance, as well as reflecting a wider resonance with trade union sensibilities.

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运动中的团结:人民争取就业大游行中的想象和基础设施(1981)

本文回顾了1981年的“为工作的人民游行”，这是英国失业行动主义和团结的时刻。论文认为，游行揭示了一种以流动性、存在、想象和对话为特征的团结的空间政治。它考虑了游行是如何通过工会组织和政治联盟形成的，以明确反对失业率上升，挑战与劳动力市场不活跃相关的污名。本文对“工人阶级存在”和“想象的团结”概念的地理研究做出了贡献，探讨了使失业抵抗成为可能的“团结基础设施”。它考虑了物质资源以及通过游行培养的对团结的更具创造性和想象性的理解。这些更短暂和暂时的团结形式在其直接意义上是有意义的，但也对参与者和被访问的地方产生更持久的影响。在这方面，“想象的团结”和“团结基础设施”的结合为地理学家提供了一种洞察抵抗运动的空间动态的视角，同时也反映了与工会敏感性的更广泛的共鸣。

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